News - SoftKinectic DS325 finger-tracking Kinect competitor shows-up

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It's smaller, more accurate and seems generally much faster.

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Hmm, just like leapmotion then ?

http://hexus.net/tech/news/periphera...on-controller/

Looks like the competition for close-range kinect style devices is hotting up !

I need more information about the leapmotion product before I consider a preorder ,complete lack of details on the website. Not even sure it uses a depth sensor perhaps just a camera and an integrated board.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/l...logy-hands-on/

Does that help?(sorry to post a competing site!).

I was hooked on the idea of leap motion the fact it can be mounted in numerous places and it seems very good, the price is also a deciding factor at like £60 its a bargain :D.

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http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/l...logy-hands-on/

Does that help?(sorry to post a competing site!).

I was hooked on the idea of leap motion the fact it can be mounted in numerous places and it seems very good, the price is also a deciding factor at like £60 its a bargain :D.

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Thanks, had a feeling it used only image sensors at that price, it's clearly using infrared light to highlight detail night-vision style and then performing some 2D image processing but the matching the results across several sensors to obtain an idea of depth - that's the bit where all the magic will be I guess, would love to have a play.

I had a look at the video for the Softkinectic and is it just me or did it seem fairly laggy on input, for $250 it seems a bit overpriced. The leap is relatively cheap tech but with some magic in the actual processing of that, like you rightly say :D. The leap looks pretty good, yes in that hands on you see him use a mouse a few times (not 100% sure why) but i assume its probably due to improvements needed in the win7 environment. With windows 8 it certainly will be a great experience and since they have atleast another 6 months of dev work then im confident they will pump out a solid unit with good support, the main advantage is the backwards compatibility so anything with touch input support is usable :).

The price is merely whats got me interested, yes i can grab a kinect secondhand for maybe a similar price but it doesnt work the way i want it... im not fussed about it seeing how my face is looking or body i simply will be using it for the hand gestures so a simple design works best from what i can see. Obviously this could be false praise and i get given a shoddy unit, but time will tell and i cant wait to write up my hands on opinion :D.



(end result though im happy others are in this market as we need strong competition to innovate the gesture/handsfree market :))

Come to poppa 'ikkle device:)

My front room needs to be rid of the nasty HTPC remote and this looks like the way forward. As long as it can control proper progs like MPC-HC and not just official 'Media Center'.